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Musk says he is providing Iran with Starlink as regime restricts internet

Elon Musk signaled late Friday night that he is providing Iranians with Starlink satellite internet after conservative analyst Mark Levin asked him to turn the service on in Iran during Israel‘s conflict with the country.

“The beams are on,” Musk said in a response to Levin’s request on X.

Levin’s initial post argued that if Starlink is turned on in the country, “Musk can put the final nail in the coffin of the Iranian regime.” Starlink is Musk’s satellite internet service.

Iran restricted internet access for millions of people following Israel’s strike on the country. Internet usage in the country heavily declined after the restrictions were issued, according to the internet monitoring group Netblocks. There hasn’t been a complete block of traffic, however, as Levin’s post suggested.

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The Truth About Fort Knox and Gold Leasing

Whatever happened to the Donald Trump and Elon Musk visit to Fort Knox?

You’ll recall the buzz from earlier this year. Trump and Musk loudly announced they were going to visit the U.S. bullion depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky to make sure the U.S. gold was actually there. The press was invited to tag along. Musk claimed that his DOGE team was ready to “audit” the gold bars to see that there were none missing. I had my own views on the announcement (described below) but I certainly agreed this would be the mother of all photo ops.

For the record, the U.S. Treasury holds 8,133.5 metric tonnes of gold in the U.S. reserve position. Slightly less than half of this gold is stored in Fort Knox. The remainder is mostly stored in a secure vault at West Point, New York. The exact location of that vault is classified although I happen to know where it is. A small amount is held at the Denver Mint for coinage purposes. Legally the U.S. Treasury owns the gold reserve, but I point out that the U.S. Army actually controls it since almost all of the gold is stored on two Army bases – Fort Knox and West Point.

A Fort Knox Extravaganza

None of this nuance about storage and location deterred Trump and Musk. In the popular imagination, all of the gold is in Fort Knox. That’s where they were headed to prove once and for all that the gold was actually there. Elon Musk planned to livestream the entire visit using his Starlink satellite system. Trump vaguely threatened that if any gold were missing, there would be disastrous consequences for any wrongdoers who removed it. The plot was set. The drama seemed irresistible.

As an aside, I was hoping that Trump and Musk were each reasonably fit and had been lifting some free weights. Gold is heavy! In fact, it’s one of the most dense materials in the periodic table of the elements, leaving aside radioactive elements like uranium and some of the trace elements that only exist in minute atomic-level quantities. A standard 400-Troy Ounce bar weighs 27.4 pounds in the English system. I’ve lifted a few during my visits to secure gold vaults. I always smile for the camera, but inside it takes a lot of strength to keep the gold bar in the air. I was concerned that Trump or Musk might strain their backs putting on a show for the press.

Trump mentioned the proposed visit to Fort Knox in a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. He mentioned it to reporters aboard Air Force One. He mentioned his plan again in remarks before the National Governors Association Conference and at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) annual meeting.

Then suddenly the whole story went away. Trump never mentioned it again after February 26. Musk went radio silent on the topic after April 6. There was no visit to Fort Knox. There was no announcement about why there would be no visit. It was as if the whole story never happened. It just went away.

Now, Elon Musk is leaving his position as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). That was always in the cards. Musk’s appointment was as a temporary government employee; he was always going to leave about now. But why not put on a memorable gold show during his time in office? It simply never happened.

The Question Is, Why?

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Trump says Elon Musk could face ‘serious consequences’ if he backs Democratic candidates

President Donald Trump is not backing off his battle with Elon Musk, saying Saturday that he has no desire to repair their relationship and warning that his former ally and campaign benefactor could face “serious consequences” if he tries to help Democrats in upcoming elections.

Trump told NBC’s Kristen Welker in a phone interview that he has no plans to make up with Musk. Asked specifically if he thought his relationship with the mega-billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX is over, Trump responded, “I would assume so, yeah.”

“I’m too busy doing other things,” Trump continued. “You know, I won an election in a landslide. I gave him a lot of breaks, long before this happened, I gave him breaks in my first administration, and saved his life in my first administration, I have no intention of speaking to him.”

The president also issued a warning amid chatter that Musk could back Democratic lawmakers and candidates in the 2026 midterm elections.

“If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump told NBC, though he declined to share what those consequences would be. Musk’s businesses have many lucrative federal contracts.

The president’s latest comments suggest Musk is moving from close ally to a potential new target for Trump, who has aggressively wielded the powers of his office to crack down on critics and punish perceived enemies. As a major government contractor, Musk’s businesses could be particularly vulnerable to retribution. Trump has already threatened to cut Musk’s contracts, calling it an easy way to save money.

The dramatic rupture between the president and the world’s richest man began this week with Musk’s public criticism of Trump’s “big beautiful bill” pending on Capitol Hill. Musk has warned that the bill will increase the federal deficit and called it a “disgusting abomination.”

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Gory details of Elon Musk’s ‘rugby tackle’ of Scott Bessent spill out as White House leaks escalate

New details surrounding a White House brawl between Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have spilled out into the open – with one insider saying the Tesla CEO rammed his shoulder into Bessent’s ribcage ‘like a rugby player.’

The Daily Mail was the first to report on the heated confrontation between Bessent and Musk, who’s since been iced out of Donald Trump‘s inner circle after their public blow-up this week.

Former Chief Strategist Steve Bannon revealed that there was more to the mid-April tussle, insisting that both men ended up landing blows.

They lost their patience with one another following a tense meeting in the Oval Office in which Trump snubbed Musk and instead took Bessent’s advice on whom to name as acting IRS Commissioner, Bannon said.

When Bessent and Musk exited the Oval Office, they began hurling insults at one another in the hallway. But it was Bessent who struck Musk where it hurts.

According to Bannon, Bessent dared to say that the billionaire’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was a failure, since Musk didn’t root out the $1 trillion in wasteful and fraudulent federal spending he promised he would.

‘Scott said, “You’re a fraud. You’re a total fraud,”‘ Bannon said. 

That’s when Musk body-checked Bessent, who hit the world’s richest man right back, according to Bannon.

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Andrew Yang reaches out to Musk to collaborate on new political party

Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang said he’s reached out to Elon Musk in hopes of collaborating on the creation of a new political party, according to a Saturday interview with Politico Magazine.

Yang, along with mutual friends, believes the Tesla CEO has what it takes to form a new faction that propels America’s strongest leaders.

When asked if Musk has responded to his inquiry, Yang told the outlet “Not yet, but I assume he’s been very busy.”

“We have been of the opinion that America needed a new political party for a number of years, and so waiting another 24 hours is nothing,” he added. 

Musk’s push for a new political caucus emerged from his public feud with President Trump over the “big, beautiful bill.” The tech giant strongly opposed the national debt increase after months of working with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to cut federal spending. 

Yang, the founder of “The Forward Party,” said it’s political outsiders like Musk who consider non-traditional approaches to the country’s problems. 

“I want to work with people that recognize that America’s political system has gone from dysfunctional to polarizing to even worse. And at this point, the fastest growing political movement in the United States is independents,” Yang said.

“They feel like neither party represents them, and the two-party system is not delivering what they want to see,” he continued.

Many people have recently left the Democratic party, including former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who announced she became an independent after seeing political polarization throughout the campaign trail. 

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Musk Deletes X Post Accusing Trump of Epstein Ties, Deletes Another Calling for Impeachment

The internet lit up this week after Elon Musk ignited a firestorm by going after President Donald Trump—and then quickly backed down.

What started as a disagreement over Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB)—a sweeping tax and trade reform plan aimed at supercharging American manufacturing, reducing the deficit, and cutting off the globalist money faucet—turned into something far darker.

The feud escalated when Musk, in a now-deleted post on X (formerly Twitter), accused Trump of being involved in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

Musk wrote on X, “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”

He continued, “Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out.”

Musk even shared a decades-old video of President Trump speaking briefly with Epstein at a Mar-a-Lago party in 1992—footage that has circulated for years and proves absolutely nothing.

Musk calmed down Thursday night after going off on Trump in several nasty posts on X. Responding to a poster with (at the time) 184 followers who pleaded with Musk to “cool off” in response to Musk posting as part of his fight with Trump he would decommission the Dragon space capsule relied on by NASA to shuttle astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station, Musk said, “Good advice. Ok, we won’t decommission Dragon.”

A few minutes later Musk responded positively to a plea for peace by Bill Ackman who posted, “I support @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk and they should make peace for the benefit of our great country. We are much stronger together than apart.”

Just as suddenly as the posts appeared, they vanished. By early Saturday morning, Musk’s tweet had been deleted.

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Reports: Secretary Bessent and Musk came to blows behind closed doors

Former Trump strategist and War Room host Steve Bannon claimed this week that tech billionaire Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent literally came to blows inside the White House over a heated disagreement regarding the future leadership of the IRS.

According to Bannon, the clash erupted just moments after both men exited the Oval Office in April following a tense meeting with President Trump about who should lead the IRS.

The dispute centered on Acting IRS Commissioner Gary Shapley—a key whistleblower in the Hunter Biden tax fraud cover-up—who had reportedly been installed at Musk’s request, bypassing Bessent’s approval entirely.

Gary Shapley, the whistleblower who came forward and exposed the political interference in the Hunter Biden tax fraud investigation, was named interim IRS Commissioner after Melanie Krause resigned.

Krause stepped down amid controversy over a data-sharing agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The New York Times reported that Bessent approached Trump and told him Shapley was put in his position at the IRS without his knowledge.

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Trump Said Musk “Has Lost His Mind” — “Not Particularly” Interested in Speaking with Him After Musk Calls for Impeachment, Steals Credit for Election, Accuses Trump of Being a Pedophile

President Trump described Elon Musk as a “man who has lost his mind” amid a feud between the two, where the world’s richest man began an unhinged warpath against the world’s most powerful man. 

Musk went off the rails during a spat with the President over the One Big Beautiful Bill, which Musk says does not cut enough of the deficit, and Trump says is necessary to fulfill his campaign promises, such as tax cuts, border security, end Biden-era regulations and the war on energy, and bring back American-made products.

The White House also argues that the cuts to mandatory spending in the budget reconciliation “delivers the largest deficit reduction in nearly 30 years.”

As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump responded in the Oval Office on Thursday to Elon’s recent criticism that “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.” The President said he was “disappointed” in Elon and that he doesn’t know if they will continue to have a “great relationship” anymore.

This led to an insane reaction from Musk, who began relentlessly attacking Trump, claiming he could not have won the 2024 election without Musk’s support, and even calling for his impeachment!

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Don Lemon and Kathy Griffin Argue Trump and Elon Musk Stole The Election Through Vote Tampering — ‘Something Was Off’

The disgraced comedian Kathy Griffin has argued that President Trump stole the 2024 election through vote tampering.

In an interview with former CNN anchor Don Lemon, Griffin outlined a conspiracy theory in which Trump and Elon Musk tampered with the election in a way Democrats did in the 2020 presidential race.

Lemon responded by endorsing her theory.

Here is a transcript of the exchange:

GRIFFIN: Are you ready for a tinfoil hat moment?

LEMON: Yes.

GRIFFIN: Okay, I’m just going to be bold and say this. And, you know, you can take issue with this all you want.

I do not think he won in a free and fair election. How do you like that, lefties? Yeah, I said it. I’m Kathy Griffin, and I do not think Trump won in a free and fair election. I believe there was tampering. I don’t know. I don’t know if it was the Elon connection.

I don’t know if it was just a few good old boys in the South who didn’t do that. You know, I mean, what they accuse us of, if you remember Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss, what they tend to accuse us of is what we find out they themselves did. So I know I’ll take heat for this, and people are going to say I’m crazy, but I’ve been called crazy before, Don.

LEMON:. Your gut is telling you something happened.

GRIFFIN: My gut is telling me that something was up with them.

LEMON: You’re not far off. I won’t say that I disagree with you. But, you know, I’m an evidence person. I’d like to see the evidence. I think something was off.

And especially, you know, when someone said, oh, we’ve got this. And, you know, how do you know that? How do you know we’ve got this? I don’t need your vote or anything like that. It’s a little bit odd.

GRIFFIN: This will be the last election. We won’t have any elections after this.

LEMON: Vote for me and you won’t have to vote again anymore. And also, you know, as you said, every accusation is a confession.

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Musk Teases Launching New Political Party — Says ‘America Party’ Has a ‘Nice Ring to It’

Amid his extremely dramatic public outbursts against President Donald Trump, Elon Musk has floated the idea of forming a new political party in the United States to represent individuals who do not identify with either of the existing parties.

Musk polled X users whether there should be a new party “that actually represents the 80% in the middle.” The results were an overwhelming “yes,” after over five million votes.

After the poll, Musk wrote, “The people have spoken. A new political party is needed in America to represent the 80% in the middle! And exactly 80% of people agree,” with a laughing emoji

The tech billionaire concluded, “This is fate.”

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